Shirt



(No Model.) G. A. HASGALL.

SHIRT. No. 499,788. Patented June 20, 1893.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.

Applicationfiled October 12, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. HASCALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portage, in the county of Columbia and State of \Visconsin, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is so full clear, and exact a description as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the accompanying drawing the figure represents a front elevation of the shirt with the upper portion of one of the flaps turned back.

Theobject of my invention is to providea shirt which will secure to the wearer, the greatest convenience, comfort, and service, at the least expense of material, and of physical and mechanical force.

In the accompanying drawingA designates the main shirt body, which for convenience, I have shown open in front from top to bottom. The outer flap B, is provided with a series of button holes a, a, down the edge; and at the beginning of the flap at the waist is asingle button hole 0, in practice from four to six inches back of the edge of the flap. The opposite flap D, is adapted to lap beneath the flap containing the button holes, and is provided with a row of buttons E, and a single button F, at the edge of the flap. The under flap D is tapered in outline from the upper neck band portion down to the point where the single button hole goes over the single button F thus leaving a continuous strip of material tapered in outline from the button F to the neck band. The flap from this point down is straight, thus forming a double breasted flap from the point where the lower buttons and button holes occur to the bottom. This style of shirt is adapted for use to go under the straight edge from the collar to the bottom and-also the part connected to the flap from the collar button to the place where it buttons at the notch.

It is obvious that various forms of fastenings maybe used for the lap, such as buckles, strings, hooks and eyes, or other equivalent fastening devices, well known to the trade. By the use of a shirt of this pattern, a very slender or a very portly person may be fitted 499,788, dated June 20, 1893.

Serial No. 448,638- (No model.)

manufacture of such articles of wearing apparel.

The improvement is clearly adapted for use with every form of shirt, ladies and gentle-' mens vests, &c.

In practice I may use button holes alone in the shirt and the fastening can then be ef- 'fected by the use of ordinary collar buttons.

I am aware that it is old to construct wearing apparel double-breasted and to over-lap one flap with the other. I am not aware, howperfectly, which is a great desideratuin in the ever, of a shirt ever having been made which tion of the vertical line and the oblique line, i

having a fastening device as a button hole,

and having the opposite side provided with a button fastening adapted to registerwith the single fastening at the junction of the vertical and oblique lines of the 'first flap and a vertical row of fastenings adapted to register with the vertical row of fastenings on the first flap. q

1 do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the exact outlines shown, but

What I wish to claim and cover broadly, and what I wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is I A shirt opening in front, having flaps provided with fastening devices, the flaps of the shirt adapted to over-lap at the skirt and one of the flaps made tapering from the collar portion to the skirt and provided with afastening device at the edge of the meeting lines of the upper end of the vertical portion of the skirt and the lower end of the oblique line extending from the collar to the skirt and also provided with a row of fastening devices back of the edge of the flap and the opposite flap provided with a row of fastening devices to register with the row of fastening devices of the first flap and an independent fastening IOC adapted for engagement with the fastening at the junction of the vertical line and the oblique line on the first flap, all constructed substantially as described and constituting a shirt double. at the flap in front only and forming a practically single breasted shirt as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the'presenoe of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. HASOALL.

Witnesses:

L. MONEEL, J. H. NEWELL. 

